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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
The only thing that pays
Is taxin' other folks stuff
Protectionists and Free Traders.

As we understand the republican posi-
ton it is briefly this; Ifyou are in favor
of free wool OF free coal you are free
trader, but if you are in favor of free
sugar you are a prOtectien!st. Buffalo
Courier.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
Local Option Defeated.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo, Dec. 27.-Local option
was defeated in Butler County yesterday.
Returns are not all in, but enough have
been heard from to say the Wood law has
been defeated from seventy-fve to one
hundred majority. The Woman's Christian
Temperance Union work as only women
can, where whole hearts are set IN the task
before them. IT. addition to free lunch the
ladies visited business houses and saw
each arnnlnvoo
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
CAPTURED at Pine RIuY.

HoT SPRINGS. ARK, Dec. 27-Sheriff
Williams arrived in this city yesterday
with George ID. W lliams, the murderer of
Mrs. NJ. K. Norris. having capturei him at
Pine Buff. Williams murdered his para
mour at the Sumter House, in this city, two
years ago and was cOnvIc ed of murder in
the second degree, but afterwards escaped
from Jail and has been at large ever since.
He has been placed in an iron cell for safe
kpanin0
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
Preacher Wanted.

NEW York. Dec. GA dispatch was
published to-day that Plymouth Church
proposed 10 call Rev. Thomas < Beecher
Elmira, a half brother Of Henry Ward
Beecher to its vacaat pulpit The leading
members Of the church professed ignorance
of say sueh intent
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
Burned In His DweIIInc.

MAsoSTowN, Pa, Dec. GA fire at Nc
Germantown last night destroyed the
residences Of William b. Alton, Cue and
Rufus Jackson with their contents. The
fire started in the .h0use of Alton and
spread so fast that that gentleman was ua-
able to escape from the burning building
and was cremated The loss was $40, 600.
The fire is supposed to have been caused By
an explosion Of lamp.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
HENRY LIFTS, Editor.

''If vi" is a mocker, what kind OF a
hairpil !. he roadside coffee offered to
the twei Uy-minutes-for-dinner passen-
ger who is hungry enough to eat
pounded glass and wash it down with
aqua forts ?" We give it up.-Alta
Californian.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
n.ath 49, RanI.er

WICHITA, Kan, Dec 2.-Commodore
Woodman, aged seventy-two, died ar nine
pc.ock this m0rning. He started the Ar
KANSAS Valley Bank, the oldest in the city
I'D strsHeest 70 ne Ssata
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
James q. Blaine. =

LEWISTON, Me-, Dec. "a gentleman
Just returned from Paris met Mr.. Blaine
and says he found him in good health Mr..
Blaine said: I'VE lead = quiet life here. I
am not talking politics and am not rushing
about sightseeing 10 the exclusion OF COM
fort" Mr.. Blaine goes TO Italy for the
winter and will be accorded an audience
with the King OF Italy and others.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29

Judge Seeds examined the County
Treasurer office this morning, and
found SSl ,474 40 in the treasury. The
books and contents of safe were found
to correspond exactly.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
Seed Corn.

We will sell yellow corn at IS cts. pei
bushel, T. 0. b, at Jansen, until Feb
1T, 1888. Reference, Jansen Bank OF
Rev. Jesse Engle, Belle Springs. Sam.
pie at printing office.
z. W. THIEsEN Sc Bros.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
PhiI armour's Bounty.

CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-PbiI Armour en-
tertained 1900 Sund lv-school children yes
terday afternoon al Armour Mission. Pres
ents were distributed from a miniature
structure modelled after the Mission build
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
Injured while Riding yyItb . oo,n..

LOUISIANA, NO., Dec. 27-CarI Gessehuef.
Of Lincoln County, while driving wagon
in which was the corpse Of Mrs. Rogers,
who died Saturday, and was being brought
here for burial, was thrown under the
wheels, yesterday, and his Leg was horrk
big srgshsd.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29

Rev. A. R. Winfield, one of the Oldest
ministers OF the NJ L. Church in Arkansas
and editor of the arkansas Methodist died at
his hsme in in Little Rock on the Seth. Re
9ne u1fVsy kReun |,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29

The statement that Senator Sherman
has about given up all hope of obtain
ing the presidential nomination from
the Republicans is creditable to his
good sense, but is not probable. An
Ohio Republican is not the kind of
man to give up reaching for anything
he can see.
A mans reach should be beyond his grasp,
Or what's Heaven fors
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29

The editor Of the Parlementaire Fiennois,
Of Vienna, has BEN arrested for publishing
sytieies in praise Vt Russia
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29

Some doggerel in an Old Wing jour
nal undertakes to defend the war tariff
by saying that
The only thing that pays
Is taxin' other folks stuff.
Levying tax on "other folks stuff"
and paying it yourself must be very
profitable enterprise. That is what
Protection does.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
A VALUABLE MONKEY.

IRoNwooD, NJ Gu, Dec. 27-The best part
Of Wakefield, Wis, is in ashes. Among the
buildings destroyed are the Wakefield Bank,
Haywood, Westcott & Murray's large gen.
eral store, the pos office, K. A. Morey's
jewelry store, MilIenthal's clothing store,
the Coliseum Theater, dozen saloons, and
a large number Of dwelling houses, about
forty buildings in all. A great deal Of mer-
chaneise was saved from the burning build
ings. There was scarcely any insurance,
and many families have been rendered
homeless and penniless. Tue fire was
started in the Coliseum Theater, where q
monkey overturned lamp. The loss will
reach SlOO0U
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
FATHER KILLED.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Charles House,
foreman Of the Richmond a. Danville Rail-
road Comp ny's printing Office in this city,
living in Alexandra, was walking on the
railroad near there with his daughter yes
terday absorbed in amusing ths child, when
the south-bound Ii nit express struck
him, knocking him on the track and crushing
him so that his remains were hardly recog-
nizable as those of a human being. The
child was unhurt
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
RENTS REDUCED.

DUBLIN, Dec. 26.-THe Mitchellstown
land court has made reductian Of twenty
two per cent in rents on the Countess of
Kingston's estate. A year ago the tenants
on that estate demanded a tive MY per cent
reduction. This was refused, and since
that time the tenants have carried on the
plan of campaign
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
TWO MEN KILLED.

D,wNINGToS, Pa, Dec. q. AT Walkers
crossing, one m le east Of here, last even
ing an aceid, nj occurred which caused
fatal injuries to two men. Hugh Coyle, Of
this place, and Albert Gallatin, printer.
whose home is at New Bloomfield, Perry
County, but who had been employed at the
Archioe Office for the past two weeks, were
walking on che track and were struck by
the milk train which stops here.
CAUGHT IN THE CoGs.
FREEPoRT, Pa, Dec. 2Z-The clothing Of
Bernard Moss, an old employe at distillery
No. s, WIS caught in the cogwheels at the
distillery this morning and before the en-,
CINE could be stopped he was drawn into
the machinery and so terribly mangled
that he died IN a few minutes,
SKATER DROWNED.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dec. 2z.-L. A. Grant,
aged TWEEN weight, and his younger brother,
broke through the ice on Onondaga lake
while skating yesterday. The young man
was drowned, but his brother managed to
extricate himself and was saved.
TWO MEN FROZEN.
BIG SPRINGS, Tex, Dec. 27.-The bodies
Of two men frozen 10 death were found near
here today. The weather Is bitterly cold.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
NICOLLET. Sent. !


VIM. Silverson moves in the house re-
Gently vacated by H. Hughes.
G. Gunderson takes control of our
school to-day.
VIM. Laumann, of St. Peter stepped
off short while to visit relatives IN this
place. Mr.. L. takes charge of the Court.
land village school to-day.
Mrs. G. Laumann and two children
from Chicago, are visiting Mrs. C.
Oberg.
DR.. Wicke is attending severe case
of typhoid fever. The sufferer is Miss
Jess living about four miles from our
village.
The christening of d. T. Johnson's in
FAINT girl was largely attended by the
friends and relatives of our genial shoe
maker.
One more boarding house in oul
midst.
Frank Kennedy and wife, of Golden
Gate, visited with the families of P. Nc
Dermid and James Hughes.
Bertha Engelbretson and daughter
lately taken from the poor house and
entered in st. Peter Hospital for Insane,
have been taken out of the hospital by
a son-in-law who lives in Norman coun-
t and promises to take care of them.
Rev. Challot preached in our village
yesterday.
Miss B. johnson visited last week
with her sister, Miss Jensen.
Mrs. Otto Heidemann spent Saturday
in ST. Peter. ALLRGRA.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
FAIRMoNr. sept. 5. lsR7


The continuous rains of last week Sc
rionsly interferred with haying, but the
ground was very dry and rain was rlnch
needed to I'LL streams and wells.
Rev. e. F. Hunt is invited to Gil the
pulpit Of the Congregational church next
Sundayl
Frank Canright, leader OF the Great
Western Band, has excepted an invita-.
ton from the band at Blue Earth City to
90 over and give them a series of les.
sons in band music.
Rev. Herrick, the Congregational state
missionary, preached two rousing ser,
mons at the Congregational church last
Sunday, and at q meeting of the church
at the close of the evening service {
unanimous invitation was extended t.
Rev. Paddock, of Michigan, to fill ths
pulpit for year.
The Episcopal church expect soon Il
hold their harvest festival, when thei
church will be profusely decorated will
grain, fruits and flowers, and they will
have services appropriate for such al
occasion.
We regret to announce the death Of ]
B. Frazier, our worthy register of deeds
He passed quietly away about noon yes
terday, after long and severe illness
He died of heart disease. Mr.. Frazle
was a gallant soldier and lost q leg il
the service of his country. He was
genial warm-hearted gentleman, an,
leaves wife and family and hosts q
friends to mourn his departure. An
other comrade gone to answer the ro
call beyond the river.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

The bad condition of much of the
wheat offered them is causing elevator
men much perplexity. The grain being
damp, warehouse men refuse to buy it,
except at very low price, and this is
causing large quantity of grain to be
stored in county houses for account of
the owners. The WInona Republican
says the result will be that the houses
will be filed with off-grade wheat and q
blockade will follow. The matter there
fore has assumed serious phase. I'm
der the State law the elevator companies
have ordered their houses closed for the
present, as they cannot provide special
bins for all the damaged grain, and be-
sides, there is too much risk in handling
it all. One company operating on the
Manitoba line reports that out of $1,000
bushels day delivered by farmers they
are purchasing only about 1000 bushels,
the remainder going into store on the
farmers account. 1t cannot be placed
in graded bins and there are too few
special bins to hold the wheat and allow
of its being worked to prevent heating.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
LAKE CRYSTAL SenL-


We are getting about all the rain W.
have any use for down this way. 1t hal
put stop to threshing and farm work
generally.
The cattle case of Riley vs.. Evans, be
fore Justice Mead, was decided in favor
of defendant; jury trial.
Miss Emma Bender's friends are sor.
rowing over the fact that she leaves fol
Glencoe Monday to remain during the
winter.
DIR. Fisher will remove his Office over
w. p. Hamlin's store. DR.. Williams
moves into the Office vacated by DIR.
Fisher.
A great many of our people will at
tend the Exposition. Miss Jennie Cobb
went on Wednesday and Misses Upton
and Colvin on Thursday.
The smiling phlz of E. A. Farmer was
seen IN town last week, looking up ord
ers for his house.
C. A. Jennings house is being raised
and generally repaired.
Mrs. DR.. Cullen will visit her parents
in La Moure, OAK, the latter part Of
this month.
Miss SARAH Scovell has arrived ready
for school which begins Monday.
Minnie Cobb is so much improved
that she is able to be out.
The place that now catches the boys
and people of leisure, generally, is Full
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

THE Cincinnati Enquirer, with true
Copperhead instinct, says eff st. Louis
does the proper thing she will put up 9
picture of President Cleveland at every
available point" 1t was the policy Of
Copperheadism to take advantage Of
every opportunity to taunt and abuse
the soldiers who were fighting for the
old flag. The Grand Army men go to
st. Louis as the guests of that city, and
her sensible citizens will at once appre-
preciate the fact that any attempt to
force them to pay any undue respect or
Difference to Grover Cleveland, in view
of recent occurrences well understood
by all, would not only be out of place
but positively discourteous and an af-
front to the veterans. The Grand Army
has not and will not refuse to pay the
respect to the President of the United
States that is due him, but they are not
compelled to honor or pay homage to
Grover Cleveland as the candidate of
the Democracy for 1888. There is no
more occasion for making display of
President Cleveland at the G.. A. r. en-
campment this year than there was at
San Francisco last year, and any attempt
In that direction will be made in the
same spirit in which the old Copper
heads used to make their unprincipled
attacks on the Union soldiers. tits safe
to say the sensible citizens of st. Louis
know how to treat those who become
their guests and the advice of the Gin
clnnati paper will be thrown away.
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JANEsyILLE Sent. z

OANnoNALLh OCPbt De
Mrs. r. o. Craig and Miss Ella Sackett
are visiting the Minneapolis exposition.
Miss Sibyl Baker, of Morgan, is spend
ing few days with the Misses Pearle
and Myrtle Chandler.
The school houses have been thor
oughly cleaned in anticipation of the fail
term which opens Sept. 18th.
The Misses Crawford and Thrall left
this morning for Minneapolis, via Elys-
ian. They go to resume their school
duties-Miss Crawford in Minneapolis
and Miss Thrall in Duluth.
Miss Patience Comstock is the guest OF
her brother, H. A. Comstock.
Prof. Wheaton, of the High School
has returned from his vacation.
John Jonke, a section hand, was
thrown from hand car last evening and
badly hurt, having shoulder blade and
three ribs broken.
Miss Lila Mills returned to her home
in Minneapolis this morning.
H. Gilday is underpinning and other
wise improving his residence.
The basket festival was a success boil
socially and financially.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

THERE has nothing more silly emanat.
ed from Washington for long time that
the dispatch appended. 1t is quite like
ly that President Cleveland has at least
enough sense to know that such a course
as this lays out would be ruinous only to
himself. He should call off his fool
friends and instruct them to stop send
ing out such stuff as the following:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-The impression
with Grand Army men here is that the
st. Louis meeting of the G. A. r. will be
a crucial test. Commissioner Blacks
failure to harmonic or pacify the idig-
nant ones of the G. A. r. has been a
source of great disappointment to both
himself and Cleveland. Commissioner
Black has expressed the opinion that if
the q. A. r. declares itself at the st.
Louis meeting as for one party the
democratic members of it will shake off
their allegiance and leave the organiza-
ton. 1t Is the candid opinion of the G.
A. K. men here that Cleveland will
either boss the G. A. r. or break it up.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
THE LESSON OF THE Ute War.

There appears TO be little doubt that
the recent "Ute outbreak. " was In reali-
ty raid Of the whites upon the Utes.
Vincent Colyer, former member Of the
Board Of Indian Commissioners, whose
experience with the Indians has given
him much insight as TO their character,
has written letter regarding the late
uprising which Is entitled TO attention.
The outcome ofthe late Ute war tends
to strengthen the beliefIn Mr.. Colyer's
charge that the whole trouble was incit-
ed by number of white people who
are interested in getting up an Indian
war that they may have pretext to
annihilate or remove the Utes and di-
vide up their reservation. He expresses
just indignation in relation to the bad
faith and barbarian displayed by the
frontlcrsmen toward the feeble remnant
Of a once powerful tribe. and he calls
for the punishment Of the parties who
melted the trouble. The signal failure
of this attempt TO incite war Of exter-
mination, and the swift public eondem-
nation of the men who were concerned
therein, furnishes another illustration
of the truth that the policy Of honesty
and fair-dealing is best and wisest, even
when applied to the Indians. That old
style of border-ruffianism toward those
people win not be tolerated in these
days when the Nation is seeking to put
into operation more wise and humane
policy. The government should be as
ready to protect its wards from the "a
pacity of the cowboys and ranchmen as
it is swift TO punish when they commit
outrages upon peaceful settlers. The
great body of the American people de-
sire to deal justly with the Indians, and
they believe that the humane policy will
ultimately bring all the tribes into civil
ization and the enjoyment of all the
rights of citizenship. And the best way
to break up their tribal system and
divide up the reservations is to treai
them so humanely that they will cease
to band together for protection.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

Dispateh, and could have overcome the
"expose" of the FMn PREss; but the
Mapleton Enterprise--"this was the
most unkindest cut of all, " and our nat
ural Illuminating gas Is forever buried in
the old well, while the Holstein bull
continues to below its endless requiem.
Mrs. Paetzoldt has her new house en-
closed and we add another 10 the fifteen
already erected this summer, and the
building boom seems 10 have just began.
MeLaughlin-and he is good post
master If he is Democrat--has just pur-
chased new set of boxes. Nc. is bound
to make ours first-class Office in all
but the pay, and we shall be sorry to
loose HIM the 4th of March, 1Ss9-"but
such is life." And by the way, that
Democratic postmaster makes an excel
lent chairman Of the building committee
on the school house, and does more and
better work than most committee men
do where they devote their whole time
on big salary. We think the Republi
can leyen in that lump must be ''gettini
IN its work"
Spaulding is at it again-this time it il
the hog market, $3.50 and better. Guy
knows how to sell and the producers ge
the benefit it.
Schweitzer now drives the tastes
horse in town and keeps the best drui
store outside of Mankato, and won
take back seat for his metropolitan
nelghbors. Besides all his drugs he hal
sold almost a car load of paints and oil
this summer.
The board ofmanagers ofthe Farmers
Association held meeting at the Secre
tary's Office Saturday and expressed
themselves as much pleased with tn,
management of their buyer, A. A. Stew
ems, who appears to be the right man il
the right place. Their only regret nov
is that they didn't commence fey
years sooner.
School commenced to-day.
Did you hear the chime of the wed
dingb bells?
The Congregational Ladies' Aid Socie
ty meet at Mrs, Plymat's, Friday. Ger
tlemen are invited to tea to "get az
quainted with the ladies'"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
WINNEBAGO Cry. Sent.

WINNEBAGo CITY, Sept. 5.
The new fire bell is hung in new
frame over the engine house, and every
one seems pleased with it.
Nj. G. H. Allen has moved his livery
business into the hotel barn at the Fari-
bault House.
Gee & Gould report they are overrun
with marble work.
Mr.. C. H. Fox has gone to California.
Mr.. F. R. Patterson is repapering his
house. Mr.. Patterson is laying out a
good deal of money on the house but he
says he will have it first-class. He is
doing rushing business. Look at the
register.
Hired help is very scarce here at pres
ent
1t is reported that Frank Dagle has
the contract for building the college.
Miss Alta Haight is once more gaining
from her long and tedious illness.
People are coming to Winnebago City
80 fast it is hard to build houses fast
enough to shelter them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
Coon THUNDER, SEP

Coon THUNDER, SEPT. 2.
Miss Carrie Cassidy leaves to-day to
take charge of her school in LIE Sueur.
Miss Amelia Plumb is sick with ty-
phoid fever at DIR. A. G. Meilicke's
Mrs. Geo. Baldwin is visiting at Oscar
Cassidy's.
Anyone wishing to see an excellent
arched brick cellar will do we'll to call on
Ferd. Darge. He has just completed
his and it surely is the finest of the kind
we haye ever seen.
Miss Abbott leaves for her home in
New York to-day.
II. A. Thomson, Miss Villa Austin and
Miss Agnes Flanagan are visiting friends
at Minnesota Lake.
Will Grof and Herman Wedenhoft
leave for college at New Ulm to-day.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
Wonderful Cures.

w. ID. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and Re-
tail Druggists of Rome, Ga, say: We
have been selling DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, Electric Bitters and Bucklen's
Arnica Salye for two years. Have new
er handled remedies that sell as well, or
give such universal satisfaction. There
by these medicines in this city. Several
cases of pronounced Consumption have
in connection with Electric Bitters. We
guarantee them always. Sold by j. R.
Jones.